The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-21


York detectives that they are per.
Bonally acquainted with all the pro-
fessional criminals in and near town
The results OF this acquaintance are
often peculiar. You are talking with
Detective Prior q few feet from the
door OF the Fifth.Avenue Hotel and he
sees young dandy halt a few feet
away. "Better keep right on" he
says to the dandy; 'hurry up now"
ooh, good morning." says the dandy,
"Tm only going to set my watch. ]"
That is Kid Miller, chief OF the bunco
men, and the detective will not allow
him to stop in front OF the hotel
You are pushing your way into Macy's
shopping store, and little ladylike
body is just ahead OF you. Suddenly
some one steps up to her and roughly
orders her to "Get out at once. :"
certainly, sir" she says very meekly,
81 was only going to match piece oil
silk" She lies. She is shoplifter
and the man who ordered her out is q
detective.
Perhaps you are at the Arion ball
with it's 5000 dancers and lockers on.
You walk in the lobby near the en-.
trance for q breath OF mir and meet
Capt. Williams, in uniform, alert ard
handsome as an eagle. He darts from
your side and stands in front OF a
stout, elderly, well dressed gentleman
30 as to oppose his progress. "What
do you mean by coming here?" he
says. The man answers boldly; "My
wife is here and have come to take
her home" "That'll do now" says
the captain; there's the door; getl"
And, as Artemus Ward used to say,
"he gets" OF course the man is a
pickpocket.
A neatly-dressed, rather substan.
tial.looking man OF middle age sends
in his card to Inspector Byrnes at
police headquarters. The name on
the card is that Of burglar better
known by an alias, says "Red Leary,"
for instance. "Well, what do you
WANT" Mr.. Byrnes asks, gruflly
He has an especial tone for men Of
that class, and It Is tone that for
bids familiarity and suggests mastery,
very different tone from the quiet
and easy one he has for his friends.
81 would like to be in Wall street
fifteen minutes to morrow, Inspector"
says tho burglar. ~ want to SEE
about personal matter"
~ will have one OF my corps meet
you at Broad and Wall at noon,
sharp" says the inspector.
The burglar thanked the official, for
it is q favor to such man even to be
allowed to go to the money centre
with n detective at his shoulder all the
time he is there. To go without this
permission and escort means q Ger.
tainty OF being arrested and locked
up. The only known crooks that get
into Wall street under Byrnes are men
in business there whose ofienses he
cannot punish; the only Others are
the employees who default now and
then.
This is not the only part OF town
that shady characters are excluded
from. 1t has always been a favorite
method with Capt. Williams to say
to rascals OF various sorts, of you
ever put your foot in my precinct I'll
send you up. This may not be &C.
cording to law, but it's according to
fact, and they give that precinct a
wide berth. Pickpockets like the Al
len brothers, who are well known,
have hard time OF it in New York.
No matter how much they may want
to see play or II ball game or attend
a meeting there is apt to be some one
to stop them at the entrance with a
''right-about face, now. You can't
get in here" Ihave seen pickpock'
Ell hustled along like a bit OF down in
the wind from one block to another,
while apparently an innocent specta'
tor OF street parade.
And yet on the other hand they
elude observation very often. The
hostiles are not always on bad terms,
either. You will sometimes see a
burglar and detective nod pleasant
ly as they pass each other, and even
stop for a moments chat. Perhaps
the detective may have once sent the
thief up for a term OF years, but the
thief is even the more proud OF the nc
uuaintance on that account and likes
to ask the officer il it was not "a
good Job" he went to Jail for. Areply
in the Affirmative is like meat and